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THE VOICE OF SCRIPTURE ON MISSIONARY WORK. 


Il. THE GROUND OF THE WORK, 


Jobn iii. 16. 
Luke ii. 10, 


Il. THe NEED OF THE WORK. 


Psalms xiv. 
Eph. ii. 12 


Gal. iv. 8, 19. 
Ill. THe PURPOSE OF THE WORK. 
Luke xix. 10. 


Isaiah vi. 8. 


Acts ix. 6. 


Te Goreix. 3: 
VIIL. Tue REWARD OF A SHARE IN THE WORK. 
Matt. xxv. 23. 


Habak., ii. 14. 


Prov. xi. 25. 

IX. THE END OF THE WORK. 
Matt. xxiv. 14. 
Isaiah il. 18. 


Mark xvi. 15. 
Luke xxiv, 47.- 
Psalms ii. 8. 


Rom, i, 20. 


Acts xxvi. 18. 

IV. THe SIN OF STANDING ALOOF FROM THE WORK. 
II Kings vii. 9. Matt. xxv. 25. 
Numbers xxxii. 6. 
V. THe MOTIVE OF THE WORK. 

Luke xvi. 5. Il Cor. v. 14. 
II Cor. viii. 9. 
VI. Ways or HELPING THE WORK. 
I Cor. xvi. 2. 
TLCGor si, 13. 
VIL. Tue SPIRITIN WHICH HELP SHOULD BE GIVEN. 
IE Chron, zx. 9. 


Matt. xxviii. 18. 
Matt. xiii. 38. 


Rom, x. 13-15. 
Acts xvi. 9. 

I Peter iv. 17. 
Isaiah 1] xi, 1-3. 


Judges v. 23. 


Psalm ecxvi. 12. 


Matt. ix. 38. 


Col. iii. 23. 
Mark xlv. 8. 
Job xxix. 13. 


Psalms xxii. 27. 
Rev. xi. 15. 


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Just one year ago the interest was aroused by a free discussion of the condition and 
fate of the heathen and the responsibility of the followers of Christ in relation to them. 
We read, many of us for the first time, “*O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto 
the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from 
me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou wicked man, thou shalt surely die, if thou dost 
not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; 
but his blood will I require at thine hand,’”” And God in Christ Joved not only Israel 
but the whole world where he sends us to preach the gospel to all creatures who have no 
way of salvation except through that Name, on whom they must call to be saved. And 
‘¢ how then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall 
they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a 
preacher?’’ They have the image of God written in their hearts and are ‘* without 
excuse,’’ “ without hope,” “ without Christ’? and ‘* without God in the world,’* ‘*And 
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. in flam- 
ing fire he will take vengeance on those that know not God, and that obey not the 
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.’”’” When we learned these things ‘‘ we remembered God 
and were troubled,” and the declaration we made of our willingness and desire to do 
God’s will was His call to us to enter His work. 

Four members of our Band were graduated last year and Robinson is now teaching 
in the College at Beirut, Syria, and VanSchoick is preparing for a medical missionary life. 
Silver who was one of the one hundred at Mount Hermon is now in Ceylon at Jaffna 


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topic, and such Bible readings as the one appended, show that the work is “ not by might 
nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord.”’ 

The only officers of the Band are the President, who assigns the work to each mem- 
ber and for each meeting, and the Treasurer, who has charge of the funds subscribed 
for mission purposes, apart from the regular collections of the Association, with whose 
monthly missionary meetings the existence of the Band does not interfere. We keep a 
book in which each member writes his name on joining and a blank space is left below 
the name in which is to be written a brief account of his life in the service after his days 
of preparation are over. 

But the Mission Band cannot live unto itself. It must do some active work to get a 
share of the “ blessings that come upon him that is ready to perish.” Members of the 
Band speak in the preparatory schools, churches and associations round about, and have 
gone once a hundred miles away to press the claims of the work for the world. 

We accept every opportunity to scatter missionary information and arouse missionary 
zeal, and for that purpose the Band will hold a meeting to which the whole College will 
be invited, though any one is welcome at any meeting, and some of the best topics dis- 
cussed during the year will be publicly presented, For the College at large has a share 
in our work. When Mr. Forman was ordained here last fall it was proposed that the 
College should undertake his support. Only a few thoughtit could bedone. “ But there 
is no restraint to the Lord to work with many or with few,’’ and in three days the under- 
graduates had contributed fifteen hundred dollars, and though not all will be paid, 


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Christian and un-Christian, of the whole population would have an opportunity to decide 
this question, But they refuse the opportunity, and ‘‘ henceforth we turn to the Gentiles,” 
and they are a great host. A solid phalanx, one hundred miles long and one mile and a 
half broad would barely contain them all. If the Chinese alone were to mirch along in 
single file, the line would never pass by: for as fast as one generation disappears the next 
is grown up to take its place, and while a pulse throbs two souls drop ofi this line into 
eternity ‘* without hope.”’ and * without excuse ’ Isit a time to make merry and be 
glad while these, our brothers, are lost and will never be found again? ** Whatsoever 
God doeth, it shall be forever.’ 

“In the City of New York there is a larger Evangelical agency at work than all the 
messengers of all the foreign missionary societies of the world.’ All Christendom sends 
to the foreign field to-day less than 7,000 workmen; native churches contribute 33,000 
more. If evenly and equally distributed this gives at the best, a parish of 18,750 souls 
who have never heard the word, to be reached in 30 years, In China there is a province 
of 15,000,000 with only three itinerating missionaries. In the whole country there are 
919 missionaries, giving each worker about 430,000souls. There are 260,000,000 pagans 
untouched in Hindustan, We have reached only the fringes of heathenism, ‘* Whereas 
in the third century after Christ not one man out of 150 of the human race was a Chris- 
tian, now in the nineteenth century one man is a Christian out of every five,’’—a nominal 
Christian. ‘ The world is growing better,” and in proportion to men and money employed 
converts are multiplying among the heathen three and one-half times as fast as in the 


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and the other supplying the money, ‘that they may be fellow-workers with the truth.” 
While money can do so much for the kingdom and while He calls, is it not a consummate 
blunder to live selfishly ? 

A soldier of the English army declared that they could place a proclamation given 
to them, in the hand of every soul in the world in eighteen months. The Church of 
Christ has failed to do it in eighteen hundred years. We have bound the world with a 
zone of drunkenness. We have shown to those who sit in darkness the horrible feet of 
those who brought only the curse and the blight of our civilization. We can show to 
them all the glorious light of the gospel of Christ. Once again the people of God stand 
at Kadesh-Barnea, and the spies bring back a good report of the land. O ‘‘go up at 
once and possess it, for ye are well able to overcome it.’’ It is time to speak unto the people 
that they go forward. ‘ Wherefore is the heart of the people discouraged from going 
over into the land which the Lord hath given them ?”’ 

At Hartford in 1836 it was “Resolved: In view of the signs of the times and of the 
promises of God, that the day has arrived in which the work of converting the world to 
God should be undertaken with a definite scheme of operations based upon the expecta- 
tion of its speedy accomplishment.’* And yet Jesus Christ seems to be as far as ever from 
‘having thé heathen for His inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for His pos- 
session.”’ Has the church been true to her high calling when in the year ending May I, 
1886, the Presbyterian Board had to retrench to the amount of $23,000 to escape debt ? 
In the face of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who gave Himself, is it asking too much of 


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“The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,’’ 


‘God is not a man that Heshould lie: hath He said, and shall He not do it ? or hath 
He spoken and shall He not make it good? ” 


* And at evening time it shall be light.” 


